Natalie Portman Quotes
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Microcredit is about giving hope.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.
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Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?
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Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
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I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
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It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do.
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Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.
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No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
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I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.
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The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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Even Donald Trump presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.